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So human cells first survive 3 gs during launch then zero gs before they come back to good old g again. They live and multiply through all this, as long as they
by lolc 7y ago
So human cells first survive 3 gs during launch then zero gs before they come back to good old g again. They live and multiply through all this, as long as they stay inside the human.
Now somebody created a carousel and says extracted human cells die when put on that carousel. Some pertinent questions were not addressed in the article: Would the extracted cells live if not put on the carousel? Do other types of extracted cells not die when put on it?
Instead of answering these simple question, they speculate about sending cell cultures to space. Where it's even harder to control conditions. I expect exactly nothing to come of it.
Edit: They have not tested in "microgravity". There is no single place on earth where you can sustain microgravity. You'd have to move very very fast. At which point you have other problems. What they do to cell cultures is move them up and down while rotating them. This simulates microgravity in the sense that "on average" the cell cultures experience zero-g in any one direction. Actually the cultures are routinely accelerated above one g with added torque!